Sharon Stone reveals degrading moment her LINGERIE was put up for sale... leading to bombshell contract change in the 80s

Sharon Stone has relived the 'degrading' moment she learned that her used lingerie was put up for sale during her early days as a TV actress in the 1980s.The 68-year-old actress, best known for her steamy role in Basic Instinct, revealed the harrowing experience that led her to make changes to her forthcoming acting contracts to ensure it would never happen again. In an interview with Variety, the screen legend said she requested in her contract that she would get to keep the clothes that she wore in the 1995 film Casino, in which she starred alongside Robert De Niro. 'I put my costumes in my contract in the 80s, and everyone made fun of me,' she recalled. She said someone asked her at the time: '"What are you, some kind of hoarder?"'But women didn't get paid in the business,' the Basic Instinct star added. Sharon Stone has relived the 'degrading' moment she learned that her used lingerie was put up for sale during her early days as a TV actress in the 1980s; pictured in 1994 film The Specialist The 68-year-old actress, best known for her steamy role in Basic Instinct, revealed the harrowing experience that led her to make changes to her forthcoming acting contracts to ensure it would never happen again; pictured in JuneStone explained that she made the change because of a past experience that disturbed her. 'I was on an episodic TV show, and one day I walked out and my underwear and bras were all for sale on a folding plastic table outside,' she explained. 'I was so embarrassed, and I was like, "This is just so degrading to me as a woman."' Stone said that was when she sought out advice from fellow actresses and told her manager to write up a new contract for her forthcoming projects.'I just went to my manager and I was like, "Chuck, I want my costumes in my contract."''He goes, "That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard." 'I'm like, "I just don't want them auctioning off my underwear anymore. If I keep them, great. If I burn them, great. If I give them to Goodwill, great. But this? Not anymore."'Stone did not name the TV show in question.Stone also got advice from the late Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, who died at the age of 60 in 2016. 'I was on an episodic TV show, and one day I walked out and my underwear and bras were all for sale on a folding plastic table outside,' she explained. 'I was so embarrassed, and I was like, "This is just so degrading to me as a woman"'; pictured in 1996 Because of that experience, she said she requested in her contract that she would get to keep the clothes that she wore in the 1995 film Casino She recalled the conversation with her manager. 'I'm like, "I just don't want them auctioning off my underwear anymore. If I keep them, great. If I burn them, great. If I give them to Goodwill, great. But this? Not anymore"'; pictured in 1988'Carrie Fisher taught me how to write my contract, thank God, a hundred years ago because [her mother, Debbie Reynolds] taught her,' Stone explained. She said even after that, 'the studios still want to give me a hard time.''"You can't have that in your contract,"' she recalled being told as well as her response in return. '"Well, guess what? Carrie did, and so did Debbie, and so do I."'And that is the power of women, right there, ladies,' Stone said while advising other people to be proactive.'Read your contract, because the agents that work at your agency. They work for the studios, not for you,' she continued. 'God love them, but that's the reality.'In the same interview, she spoke about appearing in season three of Euphoria and portraying an executive opposite Sweeney's character Cassie, who becomes a sex worker. 'In Euphoria, I tried to get Sydney Sweeney's character to stop being a cam girl and to come and work for me on the series I was producing called L.A. Nights,' she said. 'And she agreed to stop being a cam girl, which she didn't do,' Stone noted. 'As you can see from Sydney's new lingerie line, it didn't take.' She said she also got advice from fellow actresses, including late Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher; Stone pictured in May Stone said even after that, 'the studios still want to give me a hard time.' Sharing her own advice, she added: 'Read your contract, because the agents that work at your agency. They work for the studios, not for you'; pictured in 1992 Saturday Night Live sketchThe Oscar-nominated actress also admitted that she did not intend to become an actress but said she was unable to do what she wanted as a woman in the entertainment industry. 'I wanted to direct,' she said. 'But I do have that troubling vagina issue that got in the way of being allowed to have jobs or be paid fairly for them or be considered to have an intelligent point of view.' After so much time, she said she doesn't have any interest in directing anymore. 'Now I have the troubling postmenopausal problem that makes me feel too tired to put up with people's bulls*** in order to take a directing position,' Stone said. 'I would prefer if they just kept their opinions about that to themselves while I live a happy life.'